Gigapans

Teeming with garnets big and small, fresh and weathered, the Setters Schist is a muscovite schist metamorphosed from a pelitic protolith in (presumably) the Taconian orogeny. It also features staurolite, which is present in this sample, and kyanite, which isn't.
Sample collected in Sparks, MD.
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This is a view of the mine dump of the Dan Patch Pegmatite Mine, just west of Keystone, South Dakota. The light colored pegmatite rock is composed primarily of large crystals of quartz, albite feldspar, and muscovite, with lesser amounts of tourmaline and beryl. The pegmatite is an igneous rock that was intrusive int...

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Biotite-muscovite-garnet gneiss from the Goochland Terrane in Virginia's Piedmont Province. Estimates of its age vary, but current thinking holds that its protolith is Meso- to Neoproterozoic-aged, and metamorphosed in the Devonian.

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Abandoned Muscovite quarry off Kartesh biological station, RAS, White Sea. The mine was operational at the end of 17 and beginning of 18th Centuries. New attempt of mining happened in 1930 during GULAG times. Not successful in all respects.